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NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro will be observing World Green Building Week till September 27 to promote construction of environment friendly buildings. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has partnered with Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to observe the week on the theme "Get up, Green Up". The Week would be simultaneously observed in over 100 countries all over the world. Earlier this month, DMRC in association with IGBC and other stakeholders had launched the IGBC Green Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS)

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is planning to buy 300 low-floor buses to ramp up the public transport system for the upcoming commonwealth games in the Capital. These 26-seater coaches, each priced at Rs 20 lakh will be supplied by Indo-Japanese auto company Swaraj Mazda and will come in batches of 75-buses each. The delivery of these new buses, carrying a provisional automatic ticket vending machine, is expected to start from January 2010. For Swaraj Mazda, the total order size of over Rs 60 crore will also include backend support like on-road maintenance and periodic servicing for these buses.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is planning to buy 300 low-floor buses to ramp up the public transport system for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the Capital. These 26-seater coaches, each priced at Rs 20 lakh, will be supplied by Indo-Japanese auto company Swaraj Mazda and will come in batches of 75-buses each. The delivery of these new buses, carrying a provisional automatic ticket vending machine, is expected to start from January 2010.

NEW DELHI: The pink city may miss the underground rail ride. Though the government of Rajasthan was keen on emulating the Delhi model for developing a metro rail system in Jaipur, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), considered the city unsuitable for building it. It is learnt that the low population in the city is the reason cited by the DMRC in rejecting the project and in refusing to even take on the consultancy work for a Jaipur metro, as grounds of economic non-viability. However, several metros and mini-metros like Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad are likely to get underground rail systems soon.

NEW DELHI: The tunnels of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) have become a source of revenue for it with innovative advertisements being put out on its walls. The route connecting Viswavidyalaya to Central Secretariat is being used for 'in-tunnel advertising', a new concept for displaying ad films on the walls by using a novel technology. "We are using Lenticular vision technology which is meant for moving audience. In this technology, the picture and the projections are modified to suit the audience speed helping them to view the advertisements clearly," A Rabindranath, CEO, C2E Technology Labs, the agency displaying the ad films, told reporters here today.

NEW DELHI: In the first head to roll for the accident at its Jamrudpur site, Delhi Metro today shifted a senior official in-charge of the section which witnessed collapse of an under-construction bridge in south Delhi killing six persons. "DMRC Managing Director E Sreedharan ordered repatriation of Vijay Anand, Director (Project) of Delhi Metro, who was the Director in-charge of the Central Secretariat -- Badarpur line of Phase-II which is under construction," DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said.

NEW DELHI: If you thought Delhi Metro is earning from ticket sales alone, get a realty check. For every Rs 3 that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) earns by selling tickets, Rs 1 comes from property development. In fact, out of its operating revenue of Rs 70 to 75 lakhs per day, as high as 25% comes from property development. The property development activities include renting out of shops, advertising, development of malls and housing, and setting up of IT park etc. Significantly, the DMRC has already mopped up Rs 750 crore in the last few years from property development during the first phase I opera-tions.

NEW DELHI: If you thought Delhi Metro is earning from ticket sales alone, get a realty check. For every Rs 3 that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) earns by selling tickets, Rs 1 comes from property development. In fact, out of its operating revenue of Rs 70 to 75 lakhs per day, as high as 25% comes from property development. The property development activities include renting out of shops, advertising, development of malls and housing, and setting up of IT park etc. Significantly, the DMRC has already mopped up Rs 750 crore in the last few years from property development during the first phase I operations.

MUMBAI: Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd on Monday said it has bagged a five year contract from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for construction related works. The company has won a five year contract for developing Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) high potential line-III, Reliance Broadcast Network said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. RBNL will create special media inventory at strategic locations of the stations that will offer business options to brands across sectors, including pharma, retail, FMGC, government, education, the filing added.